[Mailman-Developers] problem with latest archiver code.

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 10:38 AM -0700 9/26/00, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>ack! it looks like my server is broken!
>
>  Things are dying attempting to write the mbox files in the archiver:



>     mbox.AppendMessage(post)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 41, in AppendMessage
>     self.fp.seek(-1, 2)
>IOError: [Errno 75] Value too large for defined data type

We're definitely failing trying to seek beyond the front of a 
zero-length file. I added a blank line to the mbox file, and it 
started working.

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